71 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2018/2019 04 S E C T I O N Gigajoules (GJ) 2017 2018 2019 Plantations Energy sold Electricity sold from biogas and IPP Sahabat 86,099 108,144 76,829 Heating sold from Bio-CNG Sg Tengi 16,225 32,964 17,692 Plantations total 1,000,773 1,173,256 1,374,101 Sugar Non-renewable fuel Diesel 10,544 27,127 13,710 Natural gas 3,830,391 4,342,423 5,126,408 Energy Electricity 306,799 249,967 172,039 Sugar total 4,147,734 4,619,517 5,312,157 Logistics Non-renewable fuel Diesel 561,511 588,976 590,298 Natural gas 514,891 477,615 489,438 Medium fuel oil 17,676 17,667 14,025 Light fuel oil 16,508 19,503 12,826 Energy Electricity 33,472 32,376 38,545 Heating 76,635 71,663 74,789 Steam 434,266 406,092 423,806 Logistics total 1,654,959 2,202,868 2,229,323 GROUP TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION 6,803,465 7,995,641 8,915,581 As part of our efforts to contribute to the UN SDGs, particularly SDG 13, and in line with our Group Sustainability Policy, we have embarked on an energy conservation programme across our manufacturing facilities. The programme is being run in collaboration with Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), who will be identifying energy-saving initiatives to eliminate wasteful and non-productive patterns of energy consumption and to reduce GHG emissions. So far, the programme has identified various initiatives that could reduce energy consumption by up to 20%. FGV will undertake further feasibility studies and detailed cost-benefit analysis before implementing any initiatives. For our Sugar operations, we have invested heavily in back pressure turbines to generate approximately half of our energy requirements by channeling exhaust steam back to the heating process. We also recycle our process condensate for boiler steam generation. Where necessary, we use clean natural gas as an energy source at both refineries to reduce production of carbon soot and sulphur emissions. In addition, we employ an innovative system that combines functionalities of our Mechanical Vapour ReCompressor (MVR) evaporator and Vertical Crystallisation Tower (VKT) to dramatically reduce the amount of steam required during the sugar-boiling processes. ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
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